On Sunday, 21. April 2013 02:26:26 Andrei Banu wrote: > They are connected through SATA2 ports (this does explain the read speed > but not the pitiful write one) in AHCI. So the SATA controller is already in AHCI mode. Good. You didn't say what kind of server hardware you are using or I missed it. On the HP DL3xxx servers we usually use, we have to enable AHCI mode _and_ the write cache in the BIOS. Maybe your server needs something similar. Some RAID controllers only allow you to enable the write cache when a battery-backed write cache module is installed. HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html